Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.

Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life.

Wherever people love each other and are true to each other and take risks for each other, God is with them and for them and they are doing God's will.

Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness that is no more, or the dream of a blessedness that may someday be again.

The Shield was another of the Fear's names. According to Laughter, it means he shields the seed of Abraham the way a man starting a fire shields the flame. When Sarah was about to die childless, the Fear gave her a son. When Abraham was about to slaughter the son, the Fear gave him the ram. He is always shielding us like a guttering wick, Laughter said, because the fire he is trying to start with us is a fire that the whole world will live to warm its hands at. It is a fire in the dark that will light the whole world home.

Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.

The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.